📈📉Playing vs a short BB is where a lot of EV gets won or lost
These spots come up constantly and if you don’t adjust correctly, small mistakes can get expensive fast.
▶️We open K♦9♠ , BB defends.
⁉️What's the most frequent play here?
🥴This c-bet might feel standard in HU… but what about 3-way pots? 👀
▶️20BB effective, BTN opens, both blinds call.
Flop comes A♣ K♦ 8♣ and we hold A♠ T♣.
Top pair looks like an easy cbet but multiway pots play very differently.
⁉️What’s the best play?
SOLUTION 💡: With A8o, we don’t treat every combo the same: A8o with a ♦️checks back, while the other A8o combos mostly cbet small.
▶️ The ♦️ combo realizes equity better by checking : we can improve on ♦️ turns and don’t need immediate fold equity as badly.
▶️ Betting the ♦️combo blocks some of BB’s weaker ♦️ hands that may continue vs a small bet, so it’s a slightly worse bluff.
▶️ Versus a 12BB stack, we must be careful not to build awkward pots with hands that hate getting check-jammed.
📈How to play a gutshot properly in short-stack pots 👀
▶️15bb effective: CO opens, we defend BB with 6♥4♥.
Flop: T♠ 5♦ 2♣. We check, CO cbets 19%.
⁉️What’s the best play on the flop and why?
🔎Finding the right cbet size is where a lot of EV gets won or lost. 👀
▶️50BB SRP: LJ opens, SB calls.
Flop comes A♣ T♦ 2♣ and SB checks.
❓What's the correct play on the flop with 2♥2♦ ?
💸🤑4-bet pots are spots where wrong decisions get expensive fast 👀
▶️100BB deep: CO opens, BTN 3-bets, we cold 4bet AQo from SB, BTN calls.
Flop: Q♠ T♦ 8♣. We flop top pair top kicker in a big pot.
⁉️What’s the best play? And why?
📉This turn is where a lot of players lose EV.👎
👉40bbSRP: HJ vs BB
We cbet small, BB calls. Turn brings the A♦ and BB checks again.
⁉️Do we take the free card or put max pressure on BB’s capped range?
🤯Most poker players mess this up vs a missed cbet😭
👉50bb SRP: HJ opens, we call BTN with KQo.
Flop comes A♥ Q♥ Q♦ and HJ checks.
⁉️What should we do most of the time?
📉Most poker players don't know how to cbet OOP😰
▶️30bb effective: We open K♣️T♣️from the HJ, BTN calls.
⁉️Huge draw but do we actually want to cbet here?
👏Most players know how to play top pair HU.
But in 3-way pots? Total confusion.😖🤯
▶️30bb effecive: LJ cbets into two players.
We’re sandwiched with BB behind.
⁉️What’s your play? And why?
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🫣Most poker players punt this spot without even realizing it 😳
▶️ 50bb SRP: HJ opens, we defend T7o.
Flop: 9♠ 6♦ 5♦. HJ cbets 4,7bb.
We’re OOP with a straight draw, but this spot is way less obvious than it looks.
⁉️ What’s the correct play here?
🫵 Every poker player who wants to win money should understand this spot✅
▶️ 50bb deep, 3bet pot: HJ opens AJo, CO 3bets, HJ calls.
Flop comes 5♠ 4♠ 3♦ and we face a 49% pot cbet.
⁉️ What’s the correct play here?
And more importantly: why?